Revenue for the quarter was up 93% from last year to $3.5 billion, GAAP profit was $555 million, up 243% from last year. AMD announced revenue for the first quarter of 2021 of $3.45 billion, operating income of $662 million, net income of $555 million. “Our business continued to accelerate in the first quarter driven by the best product portfolio in our history, strong … [Read more...] about AMD Q1 2021 results
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AMD’s latest Adrenalin update puts the fun in functionality
The latest update is feature packed. AMD has gotten into the cadence of releasing a Radeon driver every month and then hotfixes after users have a chance to de-bug them, but these days there is minimal fuss. The company has delivered on their promise of driver stability. The latest release updated their Anti-Lag and Boost for high framerate, low latency gaming, and as … [Read more...] about AMD’s latest Adrenalin update puts the fun in functionality
AMD Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processors
AMD continues its takeover of the notebook space. AMD introduced its Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processors based on the Zen 3 core architecture. The new processors are designed for premium business laptops and include AMD’s hardware-based Pro technologies for enterprise-class security features. The chips were announced with two significant design wins, one from HP … [Read more...] about AMD Ryzen Pro 5000 Series Mobile Processors
Foundry announces schedule for the second edition of virtual Foundry Live
Foundry is organizing one of its biggest online event of the year, Foundry Live, from March 15 to March 25. The event will showcase new innovations by Foundry, sneak peeks into the latest product developments, and more importantly the key trends in the VFX industry. Foundry Live is supported by Lenovo and AMD. This year’s virtual sessions will discuss the future of Look … [Read more...] about Foundry announces schedule for the second edition of virtual Foundry Live
AMD continues its rise with Q4 2020 results
Revenue for the quarter was up 52.3% from last year to $3.2 billion, GAAP profit was $1.8 billion, 948% from last year. AMD announced its Q4’20 revenue hit $3.24 billion, with an operating income of $570 million, and a net income of $1.78 billion. For the year 2020, the company reported revenue of $9.76 billion, operating income of $1.37 billion, and net income of $2.49 … [Read more...] about AMD continues its rise with Q4 2020 results
Creating realistic digital hair and fur remains a challenge for game developers
EA group Frostbite introduces their Strand approach to realistic hair. It’s scary to think of all the things needed to render hair. Hair. We all have it, some more than others. Regardless, it never behaves. We cut, color it, weave and wave it, shellac it, grease and shine it—some even iron it. And still, it just doesn’t look right. If it looks bad and unruly in real life, … [Read more...] about Creating realistic digital hair and fur remains a challenge for game developers
AMD Q3 2020 results
Revenue for the quarter was up 55.6% from last year to $2.8 billion, GAAP profit was $390 million, 225% from last year. AMD’s third-quarter was up from Q2 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $2.8 billion, up 57% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was 148% quarter-over-quarter and up 225% year-to-year. “Our … [Read more...] about AMD Q3 2020 results
AMD to acquire Xilinx
AMD and Xilinx announced yesterday that AMD will acquire Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion. AMD says that this acquisition has the potential to make it the industry’s leading high-performance computing company. AMD and Xilinx will benefit from the complementary product portfolios and customers. They will capitalize on opportunities spanning some of the … [Read more...] about AMD to acquire Xilinx
Apple updates 27-inch iMac, giving Apple heads a new dilemma
AMD rides along with Radeon Pro 5000 series. The big news for Apple came as it always did in June with the company’s big WWDC. This year’s event was no less explosive for being held as a virtual event. Instead, Tim Cook marched out and scrambled the game board with the announcement of new all-Apple strategy for new Mac computers coming at the end of the year. As everyone had … [Read more...] about Apple updates 27-inch iMac, giving Apple heads a new dilemma
AMD Q2 2020 results
Revenue for the quarter was up 26% from last year to $1.93 billion, GAAP profit was $157 million, 349% from last year. AMD’s first quarter was up from Q1 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $1.93 billion, up 26% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was down 7.8% quarter-over-quarter due to lower revenue in both … [Read more...] about AMD Q2 2020 results